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Monday - Petroc's classical picks

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring a curated selection of British concert overtures and listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 31 May 2021 06:30

Music Played

  • Ernest John Moeran

    On a May Morning

    Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
    • Moeran: The Complete Solo Piano Music.
    • EM RECORDS.
    • 29.
  • Diego Ortiz

    Passamezzo moderno (Romanesca)

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Clara Schumann

    Ich stand in dunkeln Tr盲umen

    Performer: Joseph Breinl. Author: Heinrich Heine. Singer: Miah Persson.
    • BIS.
  • Robert Schumann

    Die Lotosblume

    Performer: Joseph Breinl. Author: Heinrich Heine. Singer: Miah Persson.
    • BIS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in A major for oboe d'amore, BWV 1055

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • William Byrd

    This sweet and merry month of May

    Singer: Clare Wilkinson. Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols.
    • Four Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 16.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • Divox.
    • 4.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos: Hough/Dallas Symphony Orch/Litton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Robert Burns

    When rosy May comes in wi flowers

    Music Arranger: Fred Freeman. Singer: Tony Cuffe.
    • The Complete songs of Robert Burns Volume 1.
    • LINN.
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in A Minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • American Quintets.
    • Chandos.
    • 303.
  • 脡douard Lalo

    Puisqu'on ne peut (Le Roi d'Ys)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Ensemble: Bavarian State Orchestra. Director: Bertrand de Billy.
    • L'Opera Kaufmann.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Alan Stivell

    Ys

    Performer: Alan Stivell.
    • Renaissance Of The Celtic Harp.
    • Universal Music Division Mercury Records.
    • 1.
  • Julian Slade

    I'm Up Early (Free as Air)

    Lyricist: Dorothy Reynolds. Lyricist: Julian Slade. Singer: Patricia Bredin. Conductor: Philip Martell.
    • Free As Air.
    • SEPIA.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Overture (Sinfonia) (L'Isola disabitata, Hob.28:9)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Solo E Pensoso.
    • Alpha.
    • 5.
  • POEM: "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, read by Sir John Gielgud

  • Ali Jihad Racy

    Hymn to Osiris

    Performer: Ali Jihad Racy.
    • Ancient Egypt. A Tribute composed and performed by Ali Jihad Racy.
    • LYRICHORD.
  • Alan Rawsthorne

    Street corner - Overture

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Pritchard.
    • Lyrita.
  • Marin Marais

    Suite in G major (Chaconne)

    Performer: Paolo Pandolfo. Performer: Am茅lie Chemin. Performer: Thomas C. Boysen. Performer: Markus H眉nninger.
    • Marais: Pieces for one and two Viols.
    • Glossa.
    • 10.
  • Federico Garc铆a Lorca

    Sevillanas del Siglo XVIII

    Performer: Federico Garc铆a Lorca. Performer: La Argentinita.
    • Canciones Populares.
    • Universal Digital Enterprises.
  • Carlos Gardel

    Mi Buenos Aires querido

    Singer: Carlos Gardel. Orchestra: Orchestra.
    • MUSIC MEMORIA.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella S.141`3 [after Paganini]

    Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni. Performer: Andrey Gugnin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Robert Simpson

    String Quartet No. 8 - II. Molto vivace 'Eretmapodites gilletti'

    Ensemble: The Delm茅 String Quartet.
    • HYPERION.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Gioite voi col canto

    Ensemble: Exaudi. Conductor: James Weeks.
    • Gesualdo: Madrigali.
    • Winter and Winter.
    • 4.
  • Hector Berlioz

    B茅atrice et B茅n茅dict (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Berlioz: Overtures.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Osanna (Mass in B minor, BWV 232)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • J. S. Bach, Mass in B minor: Dunedin Consort and Players.
    • Linn.
    • 11.
  • Arnold Bax

    Winter Legends (3rd & 4th mvts)

    Performer: Ashley Wass. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Bax: Winter Legends: Ashley Wass, Bournemouth SO, James Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

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